9 years after becoming the second-biggest gaming Kickstarter ever, beloved Metroidvania Bloodstained is finally about to fulfill its last stretch goal

Nine years ago, Metroidvania legend Koji Igarashi brought Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night to Kickstarter, where it soon became the most-funded video game in the history of the platform – only to be dethroned by Shenmue 3 a few months later. Now, in 2024, Bloodstained’s developers are finally about to fulfill the campaign’s final remaining stretch goal.

Bloodstained blasted by its initial $500,000 Kickstarter goal back in 2015, and the devs put up many – arguably too many – stretch goals in order to incentivize further funding. The game ended up raising $5,545,991, unlocking nearly two dozen stretch goals. A handful of those were adjusted and one – a PlayStation Vita port – was canceled altogether, but over the course of the past decade the devs have been slowly delivering on almost every single one of those extra features.